A World Ahead

Confined with no space to speak

Build up the skin to hide what composes me

I see the path but my soles are worn and filled with mud!

The needle threads

An image of beasts marching in heroic certainty

I am the tiger

A gem among a world of stone

I won’t be mastered by what holds me down

My quiet hands shuffling undetected, searching for relief

Where is my affirmation to make more of this

To live a life worthwhile

I am the tiger

A gem among a world of stone

I won’t be mastered by what holds me down

What holds me down

I am the tiger (among a world of stone)

I am the tiger (among a world of stone)

I am the tiger (among a world)

My hands pushed under the weight of my mistakes and doubts

Dreams and hopes pushed aside

I can’t live a life for someone else

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My life comes first

My life comes first

I am a gem among a world of stone

I am the beast on the tapestry

I am the courage that the needle sews

My life comes first

My life comes first

Put fear aside (don’t look back)

The relief from pressure set me free

Hold my head high

I won’t let this shift sway me

Hold strong

I can create the life I underestimated for so long

For me to write the lines

I now see the world that lies ahead

The world that lies ahead for me

I am the gem

I am the tiger

I am the courage

My life comes first

I am the gem

I am the tiger

I am the courage

My life comes first

My life comes first!